DT 100 - Fundamentals of Acting

• understand an actor’s responsibilities and relationships with other actors, sharing scenes, picking up cues, and maintaining focus;
• perform in a long scene from major plays or one-act plays involving mime, conflict, and emotional response;
• follow stage directions, show proper stage movement techniques including motivation, appropriate posture and walk for characters, gesture and stage business, body position, and facial expression;
• demonstrate good diction, correct pronunciation, proper phrasing and use of pauses, appropriate rate, pitch, quality, force, and projection in the development of a character; and
• develop a role into a distinct, convincing personality, maintaining character, projecting emotions with proper restraint, and maintaining the illusion of the first time.